TY - BOOK AU - Thuaudet,Olivier TI - The Provençal woman and her belt: Comparative study of sources for the fourteenth–sixteenth centuries PY - 2024///. N1 - 96 N2 - From the second half of the thirteenth century onward, archaeological findings of metal belt components and belt types reached a variety not seen since Merovingian times. Archaeology, archival and literary sources, and iconography bear witness to the fact that the belt is a functional accessory, a fashion accessory, and a signifying object. These sources can be used to characterize typically feminine belts. The article proposes a typology and an anthropology in the Provençal context, while remaining open to a more general context UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-le-moyen-age-2024-1-page-143?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -